Shrinking hems to promote roping effect.

[wild style]

Dissatisfied with the lack of roping on my chainstitched hems, I thought I'd give those guys a little help. Did a quick search and didn't find anything on the topic, but went for it anyway.

Nothing to lose, I boiled a pot of water and dipped the hems of my denims in the boiling water for about a minute each. Then I took a heat gun (all I had) and started drying the hems. I was able to see the roping begin almost immediately, cool. Tired of holding the heat gun, I dipped the hems one more time, and threw the jeans into the dryer.

Blurry results:

Excited to see how they'll look after some more wear. Oh, and apologies to the denim gods if this is considered cheating.

[wEstSidE]

cheating at what? i don't really see why this is necessary, roping will happen on any pair of jeans in due time.

[wild style]

The cheating comment was a joke.

Roping wasn't happening because neither of these jeans have seen water yet. Introduced them to water I did. It's obviously not necessary, but I was bored, lol.

[wEstSidE]

why didn't you just wash and dry the jeans? were you scared of messing up the fit or something?

[wild style]

The Skulls were purchased 2 weeks ago in one-wash state, so they can wait a little longer until I wash them. The sc002s will be washed tomorrow for the first time.

[wEstSidE]

they were one-wash but didn't have any roping? or was there just no fading on the hem? i'm just curious.

[wild style]

Yeah, they were one-wash and then hemmed on the union special.

I'm short.

[will_i_am]

only the right leg of my nashvilles have the roping affect.

weird.

[wild style]

Yeah, that's how my sc002s were too. They both kinda have it now.

[bonanz]

you can see the line where you dipped them in the boiling water...

[wild style]

Do you mean the line where they've been cuffed for the past 4 months?

[brightbill]

Whats roping?

(I searched the phrase and came back with this thread and nothing else, BTW)

[LaiShin]

http://blueingreensoho.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=43

It's shown by the pic in the op. It'll get more obvious with washing.

[justinbaily21]

This is roping. Beautiful little effect of denim tugging in opposite directions at the hem.

[kenthenoob]

does this roping effect work best on heavy denim?

[bonanz]

Do you mean the line where they've been cuffed for the past 4 months?

no. maybe it's the pics, but it seems you can see a clear difference in the color of the indigo at the bottom. but I guess it won't really matter if you're going to wear them cuffed past that line.

[wild style]

Blame it on my subpar pictures, but I assure you there is no color difference.

Justin, those are amazing. Everybody post more roping pictures, plz.

[kiya]

I've done this exact thing on a pair of shorts i made last year, turned out really well. maybe a bit too short.. it was an experiment more than anything...

[Chponglasia]

Wild Style: the unbound wildness of your style is possibly only matched by that of your commitment to detail, and should be taken as nothing less than an inspiration to us all. You are truly fearless, sir! In my my experience, btw, women go crazy for a well defined roping effect. Good luck trying to keep them away with those bad boys.

[Duconos los Grecos]

Roping on 40 year-old jeans:

[indigo_junkie]

Roping effect on my 10 year old Jeanswest jeans. $50 jeans, and from memory, not chainstiched with a Union special.

[rome1]

^^Justinbaily those are magnificent!

And Wild Style your roping techniques will improve with wear and age.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

[sybaritical]

Rope on my 7 year old Evisu No.2

[edmond]

roping starting on my 5 month old samurai

[Blackplatano]

the evisus actually looks like a rope.

[derdankhund]

Rope on my 7 year old Evisu No.2

downright gorgeous...

[wild style]

Srsly, that's insane.

[rome1]

oni's

[ThugLife]

what are those on the 1st page? they have the selvage like jomons.